Listening With Intent To Comprehend Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Rituals today exposes,
A fusion of senseless arguments.
And listening with intent to comprehend,
Confuses any purpose meant.

If one does for all,
With a brotherhood done to extend...
An attention is given on the doer who attempts,
Instead of the deed and the message sent.

United in greed to feed and feast,
Has been the priority of those...
Who seem only to wish to address impressions.
To discover in time their minds have digressed.

Rituals today exposes,
A fusion of senseless arguments.
And listening with intent to comprehend,
Confuses any purpose meant.

And defects of kept values,
Has yet dawned to updat and correct.
Since many are addicted to chasing delusions,
With mentalities frozen in fantasized mindsets.

United in greed to feed and feast,
Has been the priority of those...
Who seem only to wish to address impressions.
To discover in time their minds have digressed.
To profess a lack of acknowledging the facts,
That the consumption of self importance...
Long ago got them off track.